cd: The Civil War Anthology
track 1: Evergreen
We dream the dream of Erin
Every free man shed a tear
10,000 miles of misery
To make it here
There ain’t no fame or fortune
But there’s food to go around
Rolling out our woolen bed rolls
On the ground
In the morning in the meadow
We’ll form a wall of Union blue
Emerging from the shadows
Surging through
General Meagher he told us
We’re the best he’s ever seen
But the rest they only called us
Evergreen, Evergreen,
Evergreen, Evergreen
Evergreen
Two flags are flown for freedom
One torn, one left behind
The Tricolor is the beacon
In our minds
They look at us and wonder
Can their hearts be in the fray
With their minds on the homeland
So far away
Chorus
So far from the Hudson
And the Shannon further still
So little left to live for
No telling if we will
But on we fight regardless
Through the doubt upon their face
Our valor and conviction
They can’t replace
We move into formation
Our rifles and our knives
We’ll honor our new nation
With our lives
Chorus
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